Christmas present pattern...

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 131803

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> --- rosered2318 <rosered2318 at y...> wrote:
> 

> 
> Yes, she was finally getting sick and tired of being the all-
purpose
> homework machine for the Trio.
> 
> This Christmas present reflects the fact that the OWLS are less 
than
> six months away and that Hermione is not going to be helping them
> fill in their tests and that they'd better get cracking.  
Personally
> I think the present was WAY overdue and it might be a sign that
> Hermione is finally feeling secure enough to risk alienating the 
boys
> by stepping out of her self-assumed role of being the "smart one" 
of
> the group.  
> 
> Magda

Magda doesn't like Harry and Ron and thinks they're mentally lazy 
and lacking in curiosity.  Oh, the horror and shock.  Somebody pass 
around the heart medication.

Hermione is not some martyr to a pair of lazy boys.  She is a 
tightly integrated part of the trio who has chosen her own role and 
relishes it.  Sometimes she relishes it far too much, as in many 
places in OOTP where she badly needs a smack in the mouth.  The 
homework planner was one of them.  Just as DADA would bring out the 
worst in Snape, OWLS bring out the worst in Hermione.


Lupinlore